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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJbgEiQ4Cg What defines a Community?] | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJbgEiQ4Cg What defines a Community?] | ||
* [ | * [http://youtube.com/watch?v=efN9ZZ9De_I Open Letter to YouTube: Let's talk Community!] | ||
== MySpace == | == MySpace == | ||
Revision as of 01:50, 29 October 2007
Do Virtual Communities Exist?
Business
Recap
Databasification
- Impact of symbolic forms on how people are represented
- The old cliché of being a number
- But also a self as pattern
Institutions
- Corporations
- Governments
Ideologies
- Communicative transparency
- Privacy
- Bodies vs. People
Aside: on Ethical Premises
Segue
- Today we consider the phenomenon of blogging -- a catch-all phrase -- and community
- What ideologies?
- A counter-institution?
Intro
YouTube and Community
MySpace
Daily Kos
- Video of conference
- Lieberman
Are these communities?
Imagined Communities
- See Anderson1997
Community and Imagination
- Anderson's argument
- Applies to all forms of social organization
- Role of ritual is to create this consciousness
Imagination and Symbolic Form
- Newspapers
- The Novel
- Language
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Also: folklore, etc.
